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Education Management and Policy Studies: Recent submissions
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(Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Simon Fraser University, George Mason University, 2010-12)This article discusses a study that explored the way teachers perceive and describe their roles in responding to the needs of orphaned learners. The participants in the study comprised three secondary and two primary ...
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(Umeå University, 2010)Social justice is a primary concern of politicians and human rights practitioners, but has lost much of its currency as it has been elevated through philosophical debates to the level of an idealised or “imagined social ...
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(Routledge, 2010-08)The South African Schools Act, No. 84 of 1996 (SASA), provides parents with opportunities to serve on the governing bodies of public schools. In this context, members of school governing bodies may hold unique sets of ...
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(Unisa Press, 2010-07)This article depicts the state of Humanities in post-apartheid South Africa by examining HEMIS enrolment and graduation data from 1999 to 2007. It demonstrates that although the decline in student enrolment and graduation ...
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(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010-09)In this paper we argue that the clichéd phrases, ‘dealing with difference’ and ‘dealing with diversity’, despite their commitment to accepting and appreciating difference and diversity, may be used in counterproductive ...
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(Elsevier, 2010)Access to higher education is a key challenge of the 21st century state. The link between higher education and personal and socio-economic development has intensified the need for ensuring that greater numbers of citizens ...
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(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010-03)Reform and improvement are imperative in the current South African education system. Monitoring of school and learner achievement is an essential for establishing praxis for school improvement. Diversity of culture and ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2009)After 1994 it was generally expected that the decentralisation of powers would give parents in school governing bodies significant power regarding the governance of schools concerning the appointment of staff and ...
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(Springer, 2010)This paper examines the relationship between political change and epistemologies and methodologies employed at doctorate level. It does so by analysing the range of topics, questions and methodologies used by doctoral ...
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(Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, 2009-12)This introductory editorial article is premised on the fundamental notion that education is about personal and social change. But such a view, as in Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities”, is fraught with contradictions. To ...
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(Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, 2009-12)This is a qualitative study that analyses the views and experiences of teachers and students at selected, desegregated schools in Gauteng, South Africa. It focuses on diversity with regard to race, class and gender. These ...
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(School of Human and Social Sciences, University of Venda, 2009)The meaning that individual educators attach to the word “discipline” has a bearing on the discipline strategy that they would tend to employ in order to establish discipline in their classrooms. This article explores the ...
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(LexisNexis, 2009)The phenomenon of bullying is an aggressive form of conduct. This conduct includes intentional threatening behaviour, verbal and physical abuse, psychological abuse, abusive relationships and racial and sexual abuse. ...
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(LexisNexis, 2009)In St Helena Primary School v MEC, Department of Education, Free State Province 2007 4 SA 16 (O) het Vusi R bevind dat die betrokke skool ’n verpligting gehad het om die skade wat deur ’n brand aan die skoolgebou veroorsaak ...
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(Thomson/West, 2008)South Africa has one of the highest rates of violence against women in the world. The South African Government regards the rape and sexual abuse of children as a grave concern. On a daily basis in schools across the nation, ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2009)The South African Schools Act stipulates that school governing bodies are responsible for drafting certain school policies. This article reports on a qualitative research study conducted in 50 schools in Gauteng to trace ...
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(Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, 2009-06)In this article we argue that education in post-conflict and traumatised societies should be partly underpinned by the principle of ‘mutual vulnerability’ as central to a humanising pedagogy. We explain the conceptual links ...
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(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2009)In this article we argue that mothers often construct images of what they perceive as society’s expectations of them. These images become the parameters in the eyes of society to which they aspire. This is reminiscent of ...
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(Elsevier, 2009)This paper examines the significance of leadership and management in enhancing classroom practice and improving learner outcomes in two provinces of South Africa. It is increasingly recognised, internationally and in South ...
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(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2009)The establishment of school governing bodies represents a significant decentralisation of power in the South African school system. The South African Schools Act (Act 84 of 1996) plays an important role in encouraging the ...
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